Quotes About Business

Thus, fixed-price contracts tend to select the vendor most likely to get in trouble.

Although Reed tried valiantly, the income from print sales never balanced out the high cost of framing, advertising, printing announcements, and the rent on New York's prestigious gallery row, West Fifty-seventh Street. She confessed that the Delphic Studios were "a philanthropic endeavor rather than a business enterprise" and that, sadly, "sales were so infrequent as to make hope of any return at all from commissions a remote possibility.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Pueblo investment properties, and he had mortgaged the ranch to raise added investment funds for still more business concerns. At the time, with the economy booming

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

Television is a dirty business. To survive in it you have to be part weasel, part python, and part wolf. To succeed in it, you have to be 99.9 percent great white shark. The capacity for barefaced lying also comes in handy, particularly if you are freelance.

Painted on shirts went over so well I thought, why not painted on pants? Well, the big shot manager at Krusty Burger didn't agree!

I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

The final insult to all of this is that when Trump secured the nomination, media companies looked down at their bottom lines and realized that, via the profits they made during his run—Trump is "good for business," CBS president Les Moonves infamously confessed—they had been made accomplices to the whole affair. —

one of the top selections for its steady growth and defensive nature of its business. Economies may ebb and flow, but the number of incarcerated Americans is steadily growing according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

We are now eating into the profits of the entertainment business. Completing a decades-long slide, the news has become a show, and not just in campaign years, but always.

They used to call it fascism. Public-private partnership sounds a lot nicer. It's fascism with a smiley face instead of a swastika. On a green flag, instead of a red and black one. And it's a very handy way for politicians to funnel millions of dollars to their friends.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.

Men of business ought to be devout men, and not to think that business will excuse them from that which is every man's great business – to keep up communion with God.

The employees now things about our business that we don't. We should do a survey and ask them why they think so many people come and go.

How much would you be willing to spend to create a highly efficient, cohesive, and enthusiastic team that cared about your business, if you knew that every dollar you spent would come back to you threefold or sixfold or tenfold?

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Technology-based innovation is imperative for success in a competitive business environment.

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe

The average lifetime of a company on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has declined from sixty years to a mere ten years

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.

The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: Concentrated Power of the Big Press. Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. Governmental control of the press. Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. Big Business mentality. Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. Social blindness.